--- title: Quoth Arthur the king: "Sir Lancelot, of this thing it behoves ye ta… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: Quoth Arthur the king: "Sir Lancelot, of this thing it behoves ye take better rede; lightly might it turn to my shame if all my knights rode forth, and I thereafter were beset with strife and warfare, as full oft hath chanced aforetime! Who acts: honour, ye, it, knights. 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Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, ye, it, knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:2:60 # text = Quoth Arthur the king: "Sir Lancelot, of this thing it behoves ye take better rede; lightly might it turn to my shame if all my knights rode forth, and I thereafter were beset with strife and warfare, as full oft hath chanced aforetime! 1 Quoth Quoth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Arthur Arthur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 behoves behove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 18 rede rede VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 advcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 32 forth forth ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 thereafter thereafter ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 beset beset VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 strife strife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 warfare warfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 oft oft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 nsubj _ _ 47 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 chanced chance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 49 aforetime aforetime ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behove** *in a quote* | present | honour | this thing *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye | | | | | well *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rede** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | might | it | | | my shame | | lightly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to shame=Trajectory | | 5 | **ride** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | my knights | | | | | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | ye | | | | | with strife and warfare; beset, thereafter *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **chance** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the Arthur king | | | | aforetime *property* | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | | 8 | **shame** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom shame «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/)